from cmr2gameloading screens: 4/10 but they annoy the heck out of me, also the stage view and stage start menu, although you can enter the stage view.lack of real rally stages in dirt tour: 3/10availability of real rally liveries in dirt tour: 3/10ken block: 10/10 you will only here from him in the gymkhana, haven't seen or heard him in the rest of the game ) that is why he gets 10 out of 10

it's an on-going review as he unlocks the "seasons" since the game is technically not "live" till 5/24/2011

Apparently Europe gets a retail DVD-ROM copy and the US none so far.
STEAM has them for about 10% less..... I would get on board but, still waiting on some kinks to be sorted out.
I was impressed until I saw the jerkiness of the steering animations while in cockpit view. (same initially with NFSShift until someone came with a mod) the rest of the eyecandy is spot on.

News that I was waiting for: TrackIR supported during driving AND replay (cockpit)

and Codemasters actually listened to our request to have replay-controls to disappear during replay. Thanks Codies!!!!

DiRT series appears on the surface a fun console game until a Modding Community steps in.
I see a trend towards DLC on liveries and certain vehicles.
I see younger gamers that have the "instant gratification gene" go for this trend. If I own a stock on CM, I would fully
support this. Selling car skin liveries are like these $0.99 songs on iTunes & Amazon. It appears cheap, until a million of them buys over the weekend.

It's the older and curious PC gamers that would rather "learn in due time" make up the minority. Hence, they don't get heard during Investors Meetings.